Marvin Hurvich, Ph.D., DP, ABPP, FIPA, is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (IPTAR), The New York Freudian Society, and the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. He is Professor of Psychology at Long Island University, Brooklyn Center. He is co-author with L. Bellak and H. Gediman, of Ego Functions in Schizophrenics, Neurotics and Normals and his current writings are on theoretical, clinical, and empirical aspects of annihilation anxieties.
In our current professional climate, with calls for 'evidenced-based treatment', and in light of the prestige accorded to this emblem, we can ask: for what purpose do we seek evidence? For our... (more)